Mon, 27 March 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Category: Education
Online Workshop: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
NEW! Call for educators who are willing to participate in an HRE USA Teacher Feedback session three-days following the March 12th workshop on March 15th at 7pm MST. Interested teachers should contact Kristi Rudelius-Palmer at kristi@hreusa.org to join this session.
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Would you like to have a better grounding in Native American history? An opportunity to offer dynamic interactive workshops about Indigenous peoples’ rights in your classrooms? On Sunday March 12, 2-4 pm MOUNTAIN time, Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples is offering its online workshop, “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” Register here.
During this 2-hour participatory workshop,we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians. We engage with this history through experiential exercises and small group discussions. And we consider how we can build relationships with Indigenous peoples based on truth, justice, and an understanding of Indigenous peoples’ collective human rights.
This workshop is presented by Native and non-Native facilitators working together. It is appropriate for high school students and adults. Register here for the next online workshop, or contact co-director Paula Palmer (paulaRpalmer@gmail.com) for more information.
Some sample responses to recent Toward Right Relationship workshops:
From Native participants:
“Everything that went into this experience and the presentation is so deeply meaningful.”
“This workshop is the tool I’ve been searching for to begin imagining a new way forward.”
“This workshop is an innovative and impactful step towards healing.”
From non-Native participants:
“This is a wonderful model for fostering conversations that lead to more understanding among peoples.”
“I am thankful for the discomfort and what it opened up.”
“Wow – that was an excellent workshop. Best zoom educational experience I have had!”
“I’ve known and thought about indigenous peoples’ history for a long time. Now what I can do is much more in the forefront of my mind.”
Online Workshop: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
Would you like to have a better grounding in Native American history? An opportunity to offer dynamic interactive workshops about Indigenous peoples’ rights in your classrooms? On Sunday March 12, 2-4 pm MOUNTAIN time, Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples is offering its online workshop, “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” Register here.
During this 2-hour participatory workshop,we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians. We engage with this history through experiential exercises and small group discussions. And we consider how we can build relationships with Indigenous peoples based on truth, justice, and an understanding of Indigenous peoples’ collective human rights.
This workshop is presented by Native and non-Native facilitators working together. It is appropriate for high school students and adults. Register here for the next online workshop, or contact co-director Paula Palmer (paulaRpalmer@gmail.com) for more information.
Some sample responses to recent Toward Right Relationship workshops:
From Native participants:
“Everything that went into this experience and the presentation is so deeply meaningful.”
“This workshop is the tool I’ve been searching for to begin imagining a new way forward.”
“This workshop is an innovative and impactful step towards healing.”
From non-Native participants:
“This is a wonderful model for fostering conversations that lead to more understanding among peoples.”
“I am thankful for the discomfort and what it opened up.”
“Wow – that was an excellent workshop. Best zoom educational experience I have had!”
“I’ve known and thought about indigenous peoples’ history for a long time. Now what I can do is much more in the forefront of my mind.”
Memory Keepers Story Hour on Zoom
Tamar Ben-Simon, HHREC GenerationsForward Speaker
Thursday, February 16, 2023
6:45 PM Gathering for Family and Friends
7:00 PM Program
Tamar Ben-Simon is the daughter of Joseph Obstfeld, a Dutch Holocaust survivor. Tamar tells the riveting story of her grandparents and her father, who was barely five years old at the time of the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands in 1940. It is a story of love vs. hate, evil vs. kindness, despair vs. hope and above all, about the few extraordinary, courageous people who stood up for their beliefs and morals and made a difference.
In 1942, the Nazis stormed Into her grandparents’ apartment in Amsterdam, and it changed their lives forever. In 1944, her father’s mother was scheduled to be sent to Auschwitz, but due to a transportation error, she arrived and was imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Her father’s father, was deemed a “Free Jew” by the Nazi regime due to being forced to work for them as a furrier, while he secretly joined the underground resistance.
Since Tamar was a young adult she has been sharing her father’s Holocaust story about the treasured family heirlooms that serve as a testament of the Holocaust atrocities and defy those that deny it.
Human Rights Careers: The Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights
The Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights was established in 2020 in reaction to present-day challenges generated by digitalisation, globalisation and neoliberalism. Global crises like the migration crisis, socio-economic inequalities, climate change or threats to data protection can only be exposed and confronted through an interdisciplinary discourse and an applied approach to human rights. Next to historical, political, philosophical and legal dimensions, the perspectives of arts and culture in understanding and working in human rights will enrichen this program.
Application deadline: February 26, 2023
Online Workshop: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples
Sunday, January 22 and Saturday, Ferbruary 11, 2023
Would you like to have a better grounding in Native American history? An opportunity to offer dynamic interactive workshops about Indigenous peoples’ rights in your classrooms? On Sunday January 22 and Saturday February 11, Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples is offering its online workshop, “Roots of Injustice, Seeds of Change: Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples.” Register here for either program.During this 2-hour participatory workshop,we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians. We engage with this history through experiential exercises and small group discussions. And we consider how we can build relationships with Indigenous peoples based on truth, justice, and an understanding of Indigenous peoples’ collective human rights.
This workshop is presented by Native and non-Native facilitators working together. It is appropriate for high school students and adults. Register here for the next online workshop, or contact co-director Paula Palmer (paulaRpalmer@gmail.com) for more information.
Some sample responses to recent Toward Right Relationship workshops:
From Native participants:
“Everything that went into this experience and the presentation is so deeply meaningful.”
“This workshop is the tool I’ve been searching for to begin imagining a new way forward.”
“This workshop is an innovative and impactful step towards healing.”
From non-Native participants:
“This is a wonderful model for fostering conversations that lead to more understanding among peoples.”
“I am thankful for the discomfort and what it opened up.”
“Wow – that was an excellent workshop. Best zoom educational experience I have had!”
“I’ve known and thought about indigenous peoples’ history for a long time. Now what I can do is much more in the forefront of my mind.”
Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare
People’s history teachers are being attacked with Red Scare tactics — their names published on lists by right-wing publications, threats of firing, and physical intimidation.
That is why we invited historian Dayo Gore to share stories from history about how to fight back. Join us on Monday, January 23 to learn about Black women radicals active in the revolutionary struggle during the Red Scare. This session is part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
All sessions are free. ASL interpretation and PD certificates are provided.
HRE USA Human Rights Day Celebration – advanced registration
Every year on December 10th the world celebrates Human Rights Day – the day on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
We will celebrate human rights education impacts in 2022 and look forward towards activities for the 75th anniversary of the UDHR in the coming year. We will hear from and recognize honorees of our 2022 Impact Award, Edward O’Brien Award, and UCCHRE Award.
December 9, 2022 at 4-5 pm ET
More details to follow!
>> Advanced registration
Stoking the Fire of Creative Resistance, a professional development workshop for educators, activists, and artists
December 3, 2022 | 10:00 am to 4:30 pm | BCNY Gerry Clubhouse: 321 E 111th St, New York, NY 10029
Sponsored by Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), this full-day interactive, participatory arts workshop is recommended for: teachers, educators, non-profit leaders, artists, activists, social workers, youth leaders, teaching artists, and others!
Workshop registration and light breakfast will start at 9:30am. Participants will be responsible for their own lunch, but snacks will be served. As a follow-up to this workshop, we’ll be offering an optional, virtual check-in to put into practice what we’ve learned together.
For more information, including registration information, please see this website page: artejustice.org/professionaldevelopment
Book Announcement: The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education: Developing Compassion, Understanding and Advocacy
Gloria T. Alter and Bill Fernekes are very pleased to announce the publication of The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education: Developing Compassion, Understanding and Advocacy (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022). This edited volume contains contributions by a distinguished set of authors from the USA, Canada, Chile, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom, all leaders in the field of human rights education. The book combines theory and practice to help educators make human rights education (HRE) a central focus of daily educational practice and includes sample HRE units on the rights of global migrants, Indigenous peoples and LGBTQ+ communities. A comprehensive bibliography and set of appendices provide many resources for further study and research.
Contributors to the book include current and former HRE USA Steering Committee members Gloria T. Alter (co-editor), Bill Fernekes (co-editor), Nancy Flowers, Page Hersey, Glenn Mitoma, Kristi-Rudelius-Palmer and Felisa Tibbitts as well as HRE USA Advisory Board members Abraham Magendzo and Audrey Osler.
A poster session on the book’s development and content will be presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual meeting in Philadelphia on Friday, Dec. 2 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm at the Philadelphia Convention Center—Convention Center Reg Bridge West. A discount flyer is attached to this email and we encourage you to consider adoption of the book for courses in teacher education programs, inclusion in college/university and school library collections, and purchase by school administrators and classroom teachers.
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